For one thing, an ignorant user could shut down all of IT On Call Welcome, dear reader, to On Call, The Register's regular column in which we share your stories of being asked to fix the ridiculous.…
Lees meerLower demand? Bid adieu to 10% of workers and cut production American chipmaker Micron Technology plans to cut 10 percent of its workforce and significantly reduce capital spending next year as demand for its memory and storage silicon have reached …
Lees meerSamuel Bankman-Fried in FBI custody to face court 'as soon as possible' Two members of Samuel Bankman-Fried's inner circle have pleaded guilty to defrauding equity investors in the moribund FTX cryptocurrency trading platform.…
Lees meerThe term has become so ambiguous it's verging on irrelevance Opinion What exactly is the edge? What makes something an edge appliance? These are trickier questions than you might think, and depending on who you ask — and honestly, what they’re tryi…
Lees meerBut will be bigger than gaming consoles, so maybe this metaverse thing has legs Analyst firm IDC has crunched the numbers for sales of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets and found they’re not going to be a big seller any time s…
Lees meerHuawei to the chipless zone prediction Chinese telecom giant Huawei has reportedly run out of homegrown advanced chips for smartphones due to Trump-era US sanctions that were enacted.…
Lees meerRedmond accused of monopolising a market! How shocking First the FTC threw a legal wrench in the works, and now a group of gamers has filed a class action lawsuit in California to stop Microsoft from purchasing Activision Blizzard.…
Lees meerMore cash will still be needed to maintain service come spring, says Ukrainian deputy PM Ukraine's hunger for Starlink service continues unabated, and several EU countries have stepped in to help the war-torn nation foot the bill for an additional 1…
Lees meerUpdates for multiple devices including PinePhone Pro and keyboard incoming Pine64's last update of 2022 brings word of a new version of its PineTab FOSS-driven tablet after chip shortages effectively killed the first generation.…
Lees meerThe team needs a year to recover and figure out how not to stress supply chains before planning an upgrade If you’re hoping a new Raspberry Pi will pear in 2023, we have bad news: Rasbposs Eben Upton says work on a Raspberry Pi 5 won’t start until t…
Lees meerIt's getting cold out there, better spin up a few more VMs Thousands of residents living in the Groningen region of The Netherlands will soon find their homes warmed by waste heat from local datacenters.…
Lees meerDNA Center Appliances shipped since September may spoil Christmas with inaccurate reports of dead disks Sorry to do this to you, dear reader, but here’s another item for your pre-holiday to-do list: update firmware on any Cisco DNA Center appliances…
Lees meerWill stay on as boss of servers and software – the fun bits, in other words Poll Elon Musk has made good on his promise to abide by the results of a Twitter poll that asked whether he should remain as CEO of the microblogging service – and delivere…
Lees meerLeader of the the world's largest contract chip manufacturer would like it if the two world powers could work out their differences As TSMC plans to spend $40 billion to build two chip manufacturing plants in the US, the Asian foundry giant's CEO is…
Lees meerAt $349 it's a cheap computer and a not-very-expensive keyboard If you thought unicorn puke was the epitome of keyboard bling, Finalmouse's upcoming Centerpiece keyboard may see you rethink that assessment.…
Lees meerNeither snow nor rain nor heat nor lack of gas will stay these NGDVs from carbon-free completion of their appointed rounds The United States Postal Service announced today that "at least" three quarters of its planned fleet of next generation delive…
Lees meerBeijing's 'military-civil fusion' doctrine suffers multi-billion dollar blowback US chip sanctions against China have tag-teamed with a weaker economy to vaporize a chunk of the wealth held by the Middle Kingdom's richest semiconductor business owne…
Lees meerBold move, Cotton. Let's see how that plays out for them Amazon has avoided being charged with breaking EU law and a fine of up to $50 billion by making several commitments to the European Commission today, one of which was to allow Prime sellers to…
Lees meerDoesn't it make your current migration at work look like a walk in the park though Regulators in the UK have fined TSB Bank a total of £48.6 million ($60 million) for a botched platform migration which in 2018 cost the financial services firm £200 m…
Lees meerAlleged 'mastermind' who proposed 'take the money and run' exit strategy remains a fugitive "What is OneCoin?" asks the narrator of a YouTube video. "Millions of people around the world are mining OneCoin today. The reason? It's a platform for innov…
Lees meerPicture your avatar wearing a logo-emblazoned shirt driving past a billboard touting a product Microsoft appears to be expanding its push to place ads throughout different products to online games.…
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